Mark your calendars, foodies. Central Florida is ripe with restaurant openings in the next few months.

First up is a new LongHorn Steakhouse, scheduled to open Jan. 20 at Unicorp National Developments Inc.’s The Orlando Eye on International Drive. This will be the chain’s 11th location in Central Florida.

This particular location of the Orlando-based Darden Restaurants Inc. chain also will feature a new look. Darden will test its new ranch house design that will give guests a more cozy feel. You can see inside the new design here.

New restaurant openings not only offer more choices to Orlando’s tourists, but also add new meeting and dining venues for nearby businesses as well as new construction and permanent jobs.

Next up is a new Red Robin Gourmet Burgers in Sanford. The restaurant at 1630 Rinehart Road is slated for 5,800 square feet and will open March 3, sources told the Orlando Business Journal. This would be the Greenwood Village, Colo.-based better-burger chain’s second location in Central Florida, joining the Winter Garden location, which opened in 2012.

Red Robin also inked a deal in October 2012 with Unicorp’s $100 million I-Shops development, which would be the chain’s third Orlando-area location.

And last, but not least, Darden’s Yard House chain will open its location at The Orlando Eye in March or April, Unicorp Principal Chuck Whittall told the Orlando Business Journal.

The trendy craft beer-focused restaurant concept, which is taking a 14,063-square-foot space in the $200 million Orlando Eye project, will seat 400 including a patio in the shopping, dining and entertainment complex anchored by the 425-foot observation wheel, 25,000-square-foot Madame Tussauds wax museum and 25,000-square-foot Sea Life Aquarium, as previously reported by Orlando Business Journal.